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All Houses: Wednesday

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Attenborough: Tuesday

Dyson: Thursday

Glennie: Monday

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Attenborough: Monday

Dyson: Tuesday

Glennie: Thursday

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All Houses: Friday

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Attenborough: Thursday

Dyson: Monday

Glennie: Tuesday

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This is an opportunity for tutors to share key information, but also to monitor and address issues such as uniform, attendance, equipment, behaviour etc.

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Similar to Powerful Words, this is a five year programme that students follow in tutor time.

The programme has been developed by NSC's Maths and Science departments.  It aims to develop students' competence and confidence with numbers in the wider world and covers the following areas:

Data

Financial Independence

Money Matters

Measure

Estimation

Time

Factions, decimals and percentages

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This programme focusses on addressing the frequently occurring SPaG errors (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) that students make in their written work.

Each half term we have a whole school focus on a different aspect, and students are introduced to this in the first Thursday tutor time of the new half term.

The programme runs on an annual basis with the same Technical Mastery Focus Areas being revisited each year to ensure genuine mastery is achieved by the time students leave in Year 11.

Autumn 1: Capital letters and full stops
Autumn 2: Apostrophes
Spring 1: Homophones
Spring 2: Fragment sentences
Summer 1: Run on sentences
Summer 2: Commas

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We set 20 mins of homework each day for all students to read for pleasure.  When students have finished a book they complete an Accelerated Reader Book Quiz.

Tutors use this time to chat with students and discuss their Book Quiz scores, what they're currently reading, and if needed, monitoring more closely that students are maintaining a reading habit.

Students are set a Reading Challenge each year to read at least 12 books from a selection of fiction,  non-fiction and graphic novels.

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House Challenges help to foster a sense of House identity and promote healthy competition.

Challenges are designed to appeal to a range of skill sets and strengths.

At the end of each term, students find out which House is at the top of the leader board.

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‘Over to you’ sessions are a chance for tutors to get to know their students’ thoughts, achievements, ambitions, and unique personalities!

Sessions will be a mixture of tutor and student led activities with opportunities for students to explore and develop their views in response to current affairs and British Values, and to learn about and celebrate diversity in our community.

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House assemblies are a time for us to come together as a community to reflect upon and celebrate our Northstowe values of being Kind, Curious and Hardworking, as well as our wider British Values.

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Why do we have the Powerful Words programme?

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Why do we have the Powerful Words programme?

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It is estimated that students need to know at least 90% of the vocabulary in a text in order to comprehend it.

To help develop their vocabulary, all of our students complete the Powerful Words programme over their five years at secondary school.

The programme explicitly teaches a combination of Greek and Latin root words, alongside words from the Academic Word List.

60% of words in English have Latin or Greek roots so by developing students’ awareness of morphology (how words are made up), we help to develop their 'word detective' skills at deciphering the meaning of unknown vocabulary.

The Academic Word List is a list of words, identified by Prof. Avril Coxhead, that are commonly found in academic texts from across all disciplines. They require explicit teaching as they are unlikely to be learnt through frequent exposure in spoken language.

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We use a range of strategies to teach students new words including, getting them to rehearse saying the word aloud and using it in a sentence; exploring synonyms and antonyms; and using images to support with illustrating the word's definition.

Each half term, students complete a low stakes test on the words and phrases they have learnt that half term, as well as from previous half terms.

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Mastery in Spelling Programme - whole school approach to developing students' spelling

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Mastery in Spelling Programme - whole school approach to developing students' spelling

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This is a 5 year spelling programme where students practise a list of 10 words each half term. Over the course of 5 years, students will practise the spellings of 300 different words.

Each list of 10 words is composed of 1 commonly misspelt words from the 1000 high frequency word list, 3 words from Yr 3/4 statutory spelling list, 3 words from Yr 5/6 statutory spelling list, and 3 words from a list of challenging Tier 2 vocabulary.

Learning how to accurately spell a wide range of vocabulary is an important skill because it helps other people to read and understand your writing.  In fact, 5% of the marks awarded in GCSE English Literature, History, Geography and Ethics are based on the accuracy of your SPaG (Spellings, Punctuation and Grammar).

However, students are encouraged to always remember  that the most important thing of all is to be ambitious with vocabulary.  Students should never let a fear of not knowing how to spell a word, put them off from using it in their writing.

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Spelling and Curious Readers 2021-22 - trial

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Curious Readers Programme - whole school approach to developing students' reading of non-fiction

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Curious Readers Programme - whole school approach to developing students' reading of non-fiction

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This is a 5 year programme that runs alongside our Mastery in Spelling programme in tutor time.

Each week, students select a short non-fiction article that explores something of general interest.  Example articles include: All about Tintin; All about glass; All about Aardman animations; All about Leonardo da Vinci.

Once students have read the article, they summarise 3 bits of information that they've most enjoyed finding out about.

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As part of PREP, we expect all students to spend 5 mins each day quizzing themselves on the words they're learning through the Powerful Words programme.

If you sign up to www.vocabulary.com then you can access weekly word lists to practice - the link to these lists are set in your PREP task on Satchel One.

Instructions to signing up to www.vocabulary.com are attached to this post.

If you don't want to sign up to www.vocabulary.com then you can still quiz yourself on the words as the PowerPoint slides are shared each week in the Friday SWAY Newsletter.

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Students are challenged to read at least 12 books from the Voyage Reading Challenge Booklist during the year, and to complete 16 Accelerated Reader Book Quizzes.

Students who complete this challenge by the end of the year will receive 12 House Points for their House, and be entered into an end of year prize draw.

In addition to this, students who read 20 books or more from the Booklist will receive a Reading Swift blazer pin, and 20 House Points for their House.

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Pastoral Curriculum Timetable for each House

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Pastoral Curriculum Timetable for each House

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Pastoral Curriculum Timetable - Sept. 2022 onwards